Dear familiy and friends, our trip to Mexico was not without complications. First our ICE hit a wild pig - and you can imagine how relieved we where when we heard it was a pig. Anyways, the police had to come and free our train to continue which ate up our security buffer and we arrived in Frankfurt last minute. In Toronto we landed in a snow storm. Which was somehow ok for landing, but delayed our depature to Cancun for two hours. But finally we arrived well. ...

…at least almost. After having eaten through the delicious Christmas meals with some of you we at least won't starve during our trip. And after having copied passports, washed and packed for the last XXhours we are in the spirit. And that is good - it is almost time to go: Tomorrow at about 6am we will take the train and fly out of Frankfurt over Toronto to Cancun. Cancun we will leave right away to head for Merida where we will be for New Years. And on th...

Nothing or all: to be honest we had some doubts whether to go to Guatemala or not, taking the security situation and the numerous other travel destinations on our route into consideration. But having talked to travellers on our way we had met so many that were fine and had gone to most of the places where we wanted to go. We even met a girl traveling by herself. Then it was decided - we were going to Guatemala. The moment that we decided to go there we were...